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One bright day in February 2017, Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, told a rally of her husband’s Zanu-PF party: “One day when God decides that Mugabe dies, we will have his corpse appear as a candidate […]

1.⁠ ⁠You cannot settle all financial expenses in one day. Those who did are stressfully sick and some are buried already. 2.⁠ ⁠Please create time to rest, it is not a sin to sit down […]

Works Minister David Umahi is defending a proposed diversion of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway through Ondo after difficult terrain and deep pits complicated the original route. How does a project of this scale reach this […]

There is something about the Anthony Kila controversy that has begun to worry me beyond the allegations themselves. I have followed the unfolding events with concern, but what worries me most is the possibility of […]

On Friday, October 9, Atiku Abubakar gave his audience something to laugh about during the inauguration of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council. Addressing Tinubu as “Bola,” he accused the President of borrowing his fuel-relief proposal […]

Episode Description Artificial intelligence has moved out of the research lab and into everyday life. It now shapes how we bank, learn, farm, get treated in hospitals, and even how we vote. For Nigeria and […]

STATE OF THE NATION | EPISODE 200 State of the Nation reaches its 200th episode. Host Ade Balogun sits down with Prince Adewole Adebayo, presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), for a frank […]

When Nigeria was approaching independence in 1960, the Western Region already had an unusually strong commitment to mass education. But its leaders believed that primary and secondary education alone were not enough. The region needed […]

A gentleman called Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour wants to be governor of Lagos State. But he cannot speak the language of the land. About four weeks ago, he told Arise TV that he had hired a teacher […]

President Bola Tinubu is a very lucky strongman who has die-hard supporters, even among his victims. One of my friends mounted the rooftop on Tuesday last week and joyfully announced to the president’s critics: “The […]

Is it okay for you and i to take a quick pause to look back at your journey thus far and be like Miriam for today? Let us leave Moses out of todays matter, today […]

Something is going wrong in the Church today, and it does not begin in the pulpit. It begins much earlier, when a man is brought forward to be ordained and those who should ask hard […]

Sixty-six years ago, Nigeria raised the Green-White-Green flag and stepped into independence with hope. Our founding generation believed they were handing us the beginning of a great nation—a country where education would open doors, hard […]

There is a stage in life when the noise gradually reduces. The children have left home, careers have slowed down, friends have become fewer, and suddenly the house that once felt too small becomes suspiciously […]

On Thursday, 10 September, 2026, I bought petrol worth ₦90,259 for my car. Eight days later, on Friday, 18 September, the vehicle flashed its annoying yellow warning light. I fed it another ₦30,000 worth of […]

Thank you to everyone who responded to my earlier post on the Carter Bridge reconstruction and drew my attention to the various announcements and media reports that preceded the commencement of demolition. For the avoidance […]

I have known Senator Ireti Kingibe since I was a kid. I knew her sister Nene, who was at Queen’s College with my late cousin Dr Doris Fisher, née Amachree, and Stella Amachree. I know […]